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Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral (Catedrala Sfânta Treime), Sibiu

Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral (Catedrala Sfânta Treime), Sibiu

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Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral (Catedrala Sfânta Treime), Sibiu

Name: Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral (Catedrala Sfânta Treime), Sibiu
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Location: Sibiu, Romania

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1. The Council Tower – Piata Mare (The Big Square) loop from Valea Aurie

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Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Andrea und Huskys 🐺

August 10, 2024

The Metropolitan Cathedral, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is an Orthodox church. It was built between 1902 and 1906 on the site of a Greek church from 1797-1799, which had served as a bishop's cathedral until then. The architects were Virgil Nagy and József Kommer from Budapest. Since its inauguration, the building has been the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Sibiu and the Metropolis of Transylvania. The cathedral has the architectural features of a Byzantine basilica and is a smaller copy of the former St. Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople (now the Great Aysofya Mosque).

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Anne

August 28, 2018

Sibiu is the seat of the Metropolis of Transylvania founded in 1861 and one of the religious centers of the Orthodox Church of Romania. As early as 1857 Metropolitan Andrei Şaguna encouraged the construction of an Orthodox cathedral in Sibiu, but the actual construction work did not begin until 1902. This large-scale building with symmetrical layout and large main room is modeled on a smaller scale, the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople Opel.

The original wall and iconostasis painting by Octavian Smigelschi, who represented in Sibiu the Neo-Byzantine style, a synthesis between Byzantine and Romanian folk art, and thus founded the modern Transylvanian church art.

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Franz

March 8, 2019

The cathedral is 53.10 m long and 25.40 m wide in the middle. The dome is 24.70 m high and 15 m in diameter. The towers are 45 m high. On December 13, 1904, the four bells were blessed. During the First World War, three bells were melted down by the Austrian army and processed into cannons. In 1926 they were replaced.

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